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It's a great time to be a Harry Potter fan with a Kindle, now that Amazon has announced that all seven Harry Potter books will be available for free through the Kindle Lending Library via its Prime service. But for Dumbledore and Quidditch enthusiast...

On May 20, our moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, creating a brilliant annular solar eclipse for some viewers and an equally amazing partial solar eclipse for many others. An annular solar eclipse happens when the moon is at a certain dist...

Wi-Fi is super convenient, but if it lacks one major element: speed. But that may be about to change thanks to some researchers in Japan who have set a record for wireless data transmission speed at 20 times the speed of conventional wifi. The techno...

The term "4G" gets slapped onto wireless networks and devices to encourage sales -- often at the cost of clarity. Sprint announced the 4G LTE Tri-Fi Hotspot, after driving this point home at the CTIA Wireless conference, on Tuesday. The handy gadget ...

Detecting autism in children can be a difficult, expensive, and time-consuming process that requires the trained eye of a medical professional. But researchers Guillermo Sapiro and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos believe that the Microsoft Kinect gaming se...

If you've been having trouble with AirPlay on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, help has arrived. Apple has released an update to its mobile operating system that fixes problems related to streaming your audio and video to supported devices, in addit...

More and more hot new phones are starting to show up on all of the major carriers running the latest version of Android, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, with some tasty tablets being released, too. While the new iPad is undoubtedly a great piece of technolog...

Whether you power your home with electricity, heating oil, gas, solar power, geothermal energy or some other source, the energy you use to heat and cool your home is undoubtedly a huge part of your household budget. Lowering those costs is something ...

Well, there goes all those Sunday afternoons gaming in your birthday suit. Skype just announced that you can download its video and voice calling app for free on the PlayStation Vita. You know what that means? Hours of uncharted smack talk with your ...

Once you get over the novelty of posting tweets at 35,000 feet, you'll probably find yourself agreeing with the people who say airplane Wi-Fi stinks. It's expensive, it's slow, and often by the time you've logged in, the plane has started its descent...

We're prepared for all sorts of nightmare scenarios of the end of modern society, from hordes of marauding zombies to a Terminator-like robot apocalypse. But mankind's downfall may instead be caused by trillions of crabs, lashing out at humanity beca...

Special editions of video games have been serious business in Japan for decades, often coming with soundtracks, art books, models, and other unique collectibles, and sometimes selling for hundreds of dollars. For its latest Resident Evil game, Capcom...

As curators of news material, we are careful not to throw our hands up in the air and yell, "what the hell?" every time a company like Facebook spends $1 billion to acquire a revenue-free company like Instagram. After all, when Yahoo bought Geocities...

Pinterest is the Next Big Thing, if it's not already the Current Big Thing. The image-sharing social network appeals to people across the globe, no matter what your interest. As with all trendy new things, however, it didn't take long before scammers...

We may not quite be living in George Jetson's reality yet, but the science of robotics is making huge strides toward that future. Many scientists have been looking to nature for inspiration, and the results of their research include five robots in pa...

In Vitoria da Conquista, Brazil, 20,000 grade school students have recently started wearing uniforms embedded with GPS chips similar to those used in pet trackers. The chips automatically send parents a text message as soon as their children enter th...

Celebrities seem to have all the fun on Twitter. With follower counts reaching epic proportions, everything they say is instantly read by hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people. However, with all those fans comes the inevitable crop of disse...

People have been trying to crack the code of the stock market for as long as the institution has existed, trying to find secret tips and tricks hidden in the charts to predict future performance. A study by the University of California Riverside sugg...

It's a sign of the times — in this bad economy, even supercomputers have to take a second job. IBM's Watson, designed to conquer the TV quiz show Jeopardy!, is finding a second life. This time, though, instead of answering trivia questions, it's help...

With Windows 8 hovering on the not-so-distant horizon, there's been plenty of curiosity about Microsoft's newest operating system. After previewing an early version of Windows 8, we've now had a chance to use Microsoft's Consumer Preview and have a f...

Tablets are great for browsing the Internet, playing games, and answering emails, but thanks to their size and screen sensitivity, they can also help you produce some great art. Whether you have a 5-year-old who loves finger painting and needs a mess...

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